Today Quotes
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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.Carl Sagan
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.W. H. Auden
Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Spinster
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", 1803
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.Edmund Burke
When in doubt, tell the truth.Mark Twain
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us